Seattle University School of Law is home to an outstanding faculty of committed teacher-scholars. This is a collection of selected scholarship from some of our inspiring thought leaders.
Submissions from 2007
The Contract Thesis of the Federal Spending Power, David Engdahl
Letting Katz Out of the Bag: Cognitive Freedom and Fourth Amendment Fidelity, Christian Halliburton
The Constitutional and Statutory Framework Organizing the Office of the United States Attorney, Christian M. Halliburton
Fishery Conservation and Management Act Reauthorization: “A” for Effort, “C” for Substance, Madeline Kass
Combating Corruption Through International Law in Africa: A Comparative Analysis, Won Kidane and Tom Snider
The Robinson-Patman Act and Consumer Welfare: Has Volvo Reconciled Them?, John B. Kirkwood
Geography and International Law: Towards a Postcolonial Mapping, Tayyab Mahmud
Reality, Theory, and a Make-Believe World: The Fundamentalism of the "Free" Market, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, Collin Crawford, and Carmen G. Gonzalez
Washington's Way: Dispersed Enforcement of Growth Management Controls and the Crucial Role of NGOs, Henry W. McGee, Jr.
Train Wreck at the Justice Department: An Eyewitness Account, John McKay
Chatting with the Lady in the Grocery Store About Hernandez v. Robles, the New York Same-Sex Marriage Case, John B. Mitchell
Using Global Law to Teach Domestic Advocacy, John B. Mitchell
No Mud Pies: Risk Avoidance as Risk Regulation, Catherine O’Neill
Protecting the Tribal Harvest: The Right to Catch and Consume Fish, Catherine O’Neill
The Enron Trial Drama: A New Case for Stakeholder Theory, Russell Powell
Corporations and Political Speech: Should Speech Equal Money?, David Skover, Lisa Danetz, Martin Redish, and Scott Thomas
Submissions from 2006
The H’aint in the (School) House: The Interest Convergence Paradigm in State Legislatures and School Finance Reform, Bryan Adamson
Linguistics as a Knowledge Domain in the Law, Janet Ainsworth
Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases, Steven W. Bender
The Adventures of Blackness in Western Culture: An Epistolary Exchange on Old and New Identity Wars, Robert S. Chang and Adrienne D. Davis
On Lawyers and Good Samaritans, Mark A. Chinen
Intellectual Property and the Development Divide, Margaret Chon
The Right to Die: The Broken Road from Quinlan to Schiavo, Annette E. Clark
Policy, Logic, and Persuasion in the Evolving Realm of Trust Asset Protection, John K. Eason
Deconstructing the Mythology of Free Trade: Critical Reflections on Comparative Advantage, Carmen Gonzalez
Markets, Monocultures, and Malnutrition: Agricultural Trade Policy Through an Environmental Justice Lens, Carmen Gonzalez
Schooling Miranda: Policing Interrogation in the Twenty-First Century Schoolhouse, Paul Holland
A Conversation Among Deans on Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies, W. H. Knight, K. Bartlett, and E. Rubin
The Trials of Leschi, Nisqually Chief, Kelly Kunsch
Civil Gideon: A Human Right Elsewhere in the World, Raven Lidman
Civil Gideon as a Human Right: Is the U.S. Going to Join Step with the Rest of the Developed World?, Raven Lidman
To Teach Justice we must Create a Learning Environment That Embodies its Principles, Paula Lustbader
Postcoloniality and Mythologies of Civil(ized) Society, Tayyab Mahmud
My Father, John Locke, and Assisted Suicide: The Real Constitutional Right, John B. Mitchell
Leveling the Playing Field: Helping Students Succeed by Helping Them Learn to Read as Expert Lawyers, Laurel Oates
The Entrepreneur and the Theory of the Modern Corporation, Charles O'Kelley
The Perils of Risk Avoidance, Catherine O'Neill
The Principled Executioner: Capital Juries’ Bias and the Benefits of True Bifurcation, Susan D. Rozelle
From Oppression to Outsourcing: New Opportunities for Uganda's Growing Number of Attorneys in Today's Flattening World, Mimi Samuel and Laurel Currie Oates
A Lesbian Centered Critique of “Genetic Parenthood”, Julie Shapiro
Equal Protection Unmodified: Justice John Paul Stevens and the Case for Unmediated Constitutional Interpretation, Andrew Siegel
The Court Against the Courts: Hostility to Litigation as an Organizing Theme in the Rehnquist Court’s Jurisprudence, Andrew Siegel
The Court Against the Courts: Hostility to Litigation as an Organizing Theme in the Rehnquist Court’s Jurisprudence, Andrew Siegel
Introductory Essays, Kellye Testy, Thomas J. Holdych, and Robert Medved
January 1, 2003: The Birth of the Unpublished Public Domain and Its International Implications, Elizabeth Townsend-Gard
Somerset’s Case and Its Antecedents in Imperial Perspective, George Van Cleve
Submissions from 2005
On Academic Discrimination, Janet Ainsworth
Taking the Stand: The Lessons of the Three men who Took the Japanese American Internment to Court, Lorraine K. Bannai
Race and the California Recall: A Top Ten List of Ironies, Steven W. Bender, Keith Aoki, and Sylvia Lazos
A Call from Jerome, Robert S. Chang
Is an Annual Report in Your Library’s Future?, Kristin Cheney
Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan and Procedural and Substantive Heuristics for Consensus, Mark A. Chinen
Walking While Muslim, Margaret Chon and Donna E. Arzt
Note: The Impact of Medicaid Estate Recovery on Nontraditional Families, Diane Lourdes Dick
The Case of the Little Yellow Cuban Biplane: Can Interest Analysis Reconcile Conflicting Provisions in Federal Statutes and International Treaties?, Diane Lourdes Dick
Private Motive and Perpetual Conditions in Charitable Naming Gifts: When Good Names Go Bad, John K. Eason
Lawrence Summers’ Speech on “Innate” Differences Between Men and Women--A Different Perspective, Thomas Fischer
Leveling the Playing Field: A New Theory of Exclusion for a Post-PATRIOT Act America, Christian Halliburton
A Seller's Responsibilities to Remote Purchasers for Breach of Warranty in the Sales of Goods Under Washington Law, Thomas J. Holdych
Citizen and Citizenship Within and Beyond the Nation, Tayyab Mahmud
Limit Horizons & Critique: Seductions and Perils of the Nation, Tayyab Mahmud
Allegory from the Cave: A Story about a Mis-Educated Profession and the Paradoxical Prescription, Natasha Martin
Litigating Global Warming: Substantive Law in Search of a Forum, Henry McGee
Evaluating Brady Error Using Narrative Theory: A Proposal For Reform, John B. Mitchell
In (Slightly Uncomfortable) Defense of ‘Triage’ by Public Defenders, John B. Mitchell
Of Driver's Licenses and Debtor's Prison, John B. Mitchell and Kelly Kunsch
Screening the Law: Ideology and Law in American Popular Culture, Mark Niles and Naomi Mezey
Toward Reconciliation in the Middle East: A Framework for Christian-Muslim Dialogue Using Natural Law Tradition, Russell Powell
Check Only One: M/F/Other, Julie Shapiro
Reflections on Complicity, Julie Shapiro
An Appreciation of Professor Herbert Johnson: Introduction to Symposium INTRODUCTION, Andrew Siegel
When Prosecutors Control Criminal Court Dockets: Dispatches on History and Policy from a Land Time Forgot, Andrew Siegel
A Curious Concurrence: Justice Brandeis' Vote in Whitney v. California, David Skover and Ronald Collins
What Is War? Reflections on Free Speech in 'Wartime, David Skover and Ronald Collins
Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics, Dean Spade and Craig Willse
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1789-1800. Vol. 7, Cases: 1796-1797, George Van Cleve
Submissions from 2004
All Facts Are Not Created Equal, Bryan Adamson
The ADA: One Avenue to Appointed Counsel Before a Full Civil Gideon, Lisa Brodoff, Susan McClellan, and Elizabeth Anderson
Business as Usual? Brown and the Continuing Conundrum of Race in America, Robert S. Chang and Jerome M. Culp Jr.
Corporate Ethics and Governance in the Health Care Marketplace: An Introduction, Annette E. Clark
Ethics2: The Ethics of Bioethics in the Biotechnology Industry, Annette E. Clark
Case Comments: Constitutional Law: Reaffirming Every Floridian’s Broad and Fundamental Right to Privacy, Diane Lourdes Dick
Retirement Security Through Asset Protection: An Evolution Of Wealth, Privilege, and Policy, John K. Eason
Are We on the Path to Liberation Now?: Same-Sex Marriage at Home and Abroad, Paula L. Ettelbrick and Julie Shapiro
Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment: The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development, Carmen G. Gonzalez
Neither Separate Nor Equal How Race-Sensitive Enforcement of Criminal Laws Threatens to Undo Brown v. Board of Education, Christian Haliburton
Innocent Spouses: A Critique of the New Laws Governing Joint and Several Tax Liability, Lily Kahng
Introduction: Brown, Triumph or Challenge?, Henry W. McGee Jr.
Preemptive War: Is It Constitutional, John B. Mitchell
Beyond Lane: Who is Protected By the Americans With Disabilities Act, Who Should Be?, Russell Powell
Rise of the Machines: Justice Information Systems and the Question of Public Access to Court Records over the Internet, Gregory Silverman
The Landmark Free-Speech Case That Wasn't: The Nike v. Kasky Story, David Skover and Ronald Collins
The Cambodian Amnesties: Beneficiaries and the Temporal Reach of Amnesties for Gross Violation of Human Rights, Ronald Slye
International Human Rights & U.S. Foreign Policy: An Introduction, Ronald C. Slye
Letters to the Editors of Health Matrix, Ken Wing
Submissions from 2003
(Un)Examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students to Recognize Bias in Legal Analysis and Language , Lorraine Bannai and Anne Enquist
Letters and Postcards We Wished We Had Sent to Gary Bellow and Bea Moulton, Marilyn Berger, John Mitchell, and Annette Clark
“Forget the Alamo”: Race Courses as a Struggle Over History and Collective Memory, Robert S. Chang